The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-12-21
The Outlook in Central Europs 6scsmlng
More and More Threatening.
4 Gsnirsl Bslief That War CInuOt DO Held
eff Logger Than Nsxt Spring.
All Depends on the Cessation Of Prussiss
Activs Military Movements.
Germany and Austria Will be Ready to
Meet RTheir Common FOe-Dsbates in
the ReiohstRg-An Patriotic,

BERLIN, December 17.-TCOpyrighted
1857 by the New York Associated Press. l.
Emperor William held to-day an informal
council on the military situation. Prince
William, General Won Moltke, General
Won Schellendorft, Count Won Waldersse
and General Albedvil were present. The
council, which lasted two hours is under
stood to have a special hearing on to-mor-
rows military council at Vienna, What
ever measure is there adopted will be taken
IN consoDance with a concerted plan for a
demonstration against Russia. Reports
have reached the Berlin War Office which
describe the Austrian defense works In
Galicia as neglected, while the movements
OF the Russian troops show an accurate
knowledge OF the weak points for attack.
these statements, which were sent TO
Nienra, have stung the War Office there
INTO night and day activity. No news is
permitted to transpire regarding military
movements, but 1t is known that the rail-
ways in the direction of Cracow, Iaroslay,
LembeIg and the Przemysi Junction are
worked by the traffic in men and war ma
terials. Major Defines, military attache
at the German Legation in Vienna,
spends hours daily al the War Office in con-
sultRtion with the Chiefs Of Departments.
AL measures that are decided upon are
communicated TO the Berlin authorities
through Major Defines, and the inspiration
of Count Won Moltke is supposed TO guide
the Austrian preparations To.morrow's
council will be attended by Herr Won
Tisza, Hungsrian Prime Minister; Count
Won Tsafe, Minister of the Interior; Count
kalDoly, Count BylandtRheydt Imperial
Mimi ter OF Wtr; Herr Won Klllay, I'M
perlal Minister IF Finance, and Archduke
Albrecht, and will be presided over by the
Emperor. The result of the conference Is
eagerly awaited. Berlin officials are OF the
will be nothing more than the accelerated
dispatch OF troops 10 the front. The time
has not come for collective note from the
allied powers demanding an explanation of
the Russian concentrations. Ii Is certain
that Prince Bismarck has not yet taken
action towards collective ultimatum.
ALL DEPENDS ON RUSSIA,
General Won Schweinitz, German Ambas-
sadOr 10 Russia, after n two-days' stay
at Friedrichsruhe, returned to Berlin,
Thursday He had an audience with the
Emperor yesterday, and will return to his
post at 81. Petersburg tomorrow without
special instructions. II the Gar approach
es bim upon the question of muIual arma.
ments, General Won Schweinitz is believed
to be charged to represent that the Ger
man diplomatic and military position is
unchanged, and that peace is dependent
upon a cessation Of the Russian measures
against the Lesgue of Peace.
Government circles, both in Berlin and
Vienna. aIe becoming convinced thst the
allies mean to attack Russia early in the
spring. Military circles in Vienna regard
the campaign as even closer, and are of
the opinion that it will be opened within
two months.
DIR. Trefort, Hungarian Minister of Pub
lie Instruction. speaking at a meeting at
the Pesth Academy to-day, reminded his
audience that last year, while everybody
believed the country to be on the verge of
war, he doubted that an outbreak would
occur; Now, on the contrary, he was
forced, although an ardent partisan of
peace, to declare his doubt of its being
maintained. DR.. Trefort declared that the
blame for the origin of war, il war comes,
would be due to the enroachments of
Russian Panslavism.
THREAT FROM HUNGARY.
The Pesther Lloyd, the organ of Herr
Won lisa, the Hungarian Prime Minister,
contends for the necessity of crushing
Russia in the event of war occurring, and
so rectify the frontier as to disable her
from causing further trouble In Europe.
A large Poland must be created, including
Volhynia and Podolia up to the right
bank OF the Dnieper, with Kietf as a from
tier fortress and Odessa as military port.
The German Empire must compromise
all the Balkan provinces with 81. Peters
burg; also the districts between the Dnie-
per and the Dwina. The Pesther Lloyd
article has been reproduced in Berlin with
out comment. 1t is considered to be more
of a threat than an indication of serious
aims Of the allies.
From ConstantiDople reports come that
under the prompting os Herr Won RADIO
witt, the German am AMBASSADOR, the Porte is
hastily extending the Notifications on the
Bosphorus, and that the German engineers
are supervising the work.
The latest st. Petersburg sdViCes say that
the War Department is supplying the
troops with special ammunition pouches
| for Berdan rifles, which will enable each
man TO FIRE fourteen shots per minute.
| The projected alteration in the rifle was
abandoned, so the dispatches say, because
IN view Of the gravity OF the situation il
was thought there would not be sufficient
| time 10 make the change.
The whole tenor of the news is warlike,
| and this caused a renewal of the selling on
| the POurse to-day. The final quotations
were the worst, and since the alarm set
in no such extensive unloading of foreign
| securities has occurred. Austrian gold
rentes fell 2H, Hungarian Ia and Rus
sian q per cent, and Credit Aastadt
marks. The panicky feeling Of yesterday
| in Vienna had rather abated there to-day,
| but the markets were in a state of sus-
| peDse, and there was nothing doing.
THE NEW MILITARY BILL.
No measure that the Reichstag has con-
sidered has so notably shown the national
| spirit uniting all parties as the new mill
| tary bill. Yesterdays debate was a sue
| cession of patriotic speeches, untainted BY
party bias. After General Won Schellen-
| dorff e pithy exposition of the motives OF
| the bill, Herr BennigseD, for the National
| Liberals, Baron Maltzolm, for the old
| Conservatives, and Count Behrenhotf, for
the Imperialists, declared the necessity
I for the measure. DIR. Windthorst ia a
shOrt feivent speech, expressed the willing
ness Of the Centre to pass it as presented,
| without reference to the committee, If the
/ Government considered that the urgency
/ of the ST uation required this action
/ through the imminence of war.
Herr Richter also intimated that the
Progressist party would give general sup
| port to the measure, adding that discussion
in committee was advisable, seeing that
the bill proposed some organic changes.
Only one faction of the Socialists, he
said. had again earned bad distinction by a
display OF anti. German spirits under the
guise Of universal humanitarianism.
Herr Rebel protested that the measure,
while increasing the c0mbative power OF
the Empire, meant oppression to the people
| within the Empire and the spoliation OF